I’m excited to announce that I’m offering another workshop on Cockatoo Island in February next year. This time I’m expanding it to 2 days so that we can include sketching with edges as well as shapes. It will also give us more time to learn how to create lively watercolour washes and combine edges with...
CONTINUE READINGLast week I taught a fun 2.5 hour workshop, sketching on the streets of Parramatta with the wonderful team from Campbell Architecture. I taught this gang last year on Cockatoo Island (see here) sketching with edges, shapes and volumes. This time we were focusing on quick sketches of the varied architecture of Parramatta. We did...
CONTINUE READINGIt’s time to (finally) finish this mega series of articles from my big trip to Europe in July-Sept 2025. It has taken me months to put these articles together – a true labour of love – but I’m so happy to have done it. Yay! Sharing highlights from my sketchbooks alongside photos of people and...
CONTINUE READINGI spent the last day of my 9-week trip in the French Alps with my great sketching friend Françoise – and it was wonderful to end my adventures with some landscape sketching. We could have gone to Chamonix and seen Mont Blanc but that would have been a bit too much driving and a little...
CONTINUE READINGI’m super excited to announce that I’m hosting a Live Version of my Watercolour course in the New Year starting on 7 Jan 2026. Yay! I can’t wait to go through this course again! Part of my prep this week was to get out my dedicated Watercolour palette to top it up. And in the...
CONTINUE READINGThe last week of my trip was spent in Geneva, Switzerland as I was invited to teach at the annual Swiss Urban Sketchers Symposium. This was a very special way to finish my big 9-week European adventures! I had a lovely morning roaming the streets of the old town – and hey, look there is...
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